Creativity Quote by Corey Hart

Corey Hart’s line lands like a deadpan PSA smuggled into pop cool: the very accessory that signals swagger becomes, over time, a minor act of self-sabotage. In the 1980s context, sunglasses at night weren’t about eye health; they were about image management - a sleek refusal to be read. Hart’s broader persona (and the era’s music-video grammar) treats style as armor: mysterious, untouchable, slightly performative. This sentence punctures that armor with consequence.

The intent is blunt on the surface, almost comically practical. That’s the trick. By choosing a mundane, bodily cost - strained eyes, headaches, discomfort - Hart brings the metaphor down to the nerve endings. The subtext is that posturing has a maintenance fee. Keeping up a curated identity, especially one built on opacity, starts to degrade your ability to see clearly: other people, yourself, the room you’re actually in.

It also reads as a sly comment on nightlife itself. “At night” implies a space where disorientation is part of the bargain: clubs, spotlights, late decisions. Sunglasses function like consent to blur the edges. Hart hints that the longer you live inside that blur, the harder it gets to adjust back to ordinary light. Cool becomes a kind of self-imposed dimmer switch - and eventually, your eyes (and maybe your judgment) fight back.